Planning Policy Consultations

Land Availability Assessment - Call for Sites –  20 March  - 15th May 2026  

Chichester District Council is carrying out a new Land Availability Assessment (LAA). This study looks for land that could be suitable for future housing, business development or other uses, to help the council understand the availability of land for future housing, employment and other development and in turn to develop options for future planning policy preparation.  

Stage1 is a Call for Sites to gather information.  The council invites people to submit sites for any type of development. Sites previously submitted (such as for the HELAA or the adopted Local Plan) should be resubmitted to confirm they are still available and to ensure information is up to date.  

Sites will then be assessed - if a site is subsequently included in the LAA this does not mean that it will necessarily be allocated for development, or that it will receive planning permission in the future. 

To tell us about a site please complete the form available under Call for Sites in the Current Consultations below. 

Previous Consultations and Database Update:

Consultation documents related to the old Chichester Local Plan Key Policies 2014-29, and to preparation stages of the recently adopted Chichester Local Plan 2021-2039 have now been archived and removed from this consultation portal.  Documents relating to the Chichester Local Plan 2021-2039 remain available to view on the council web pages, in the Examination Library.

We are currently in the process of contacting everyone on the database without a live representation in the system (i.e. a representation relating to a document still being prepared) to ask if you want us to keep your details and to receive future communications about planning policy and the Local Plan.